Already so far behind.

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Stones that Wings is planning on working with in the days and weeks to come.  L-R, T-B:  a red Minnesota agate; purpurite; mineralized dinosaur bone 1; mineralized dino bone 2; river jasper [rich greens]; Indonesian chrysocolla 1; Indonesian chrysocolla 2; genuine natural marcasite; and lepidolite. I think the two reds [the agate and the marcasite] are already slated for cuffs; the rest are in various stages of selection, contemplation, or design. They're all extraordinary.

He also has a half-dozen pairs of small floral concha earrings in the works, two sizes, all set with center cabs. Plenty of other new items at the beginning stages of the creative process, too; now is when he has to start building inventory for the winter holiday season, and the first half of this year has him [both of us] already so far behind.

So does the pressure from all of these outstanding expenses. The part from the truck isn't in yet; as far as I can tell, the mechanic didn't even call to order it until last Friday, despite having been paid for it the previous Friday. I'm getting annoyed, because we need the truck working properly for my medical stuff in Santa Fe later this month. Add to that that we know it's going to be at least another grand for the labor, probably more; another grand for my own cancer screening scans coming up fast now in August. And it'll be at least $4K to take care of the permanent fix to the roof, materials and labor combined, and that will need to be done in September at the latest. The expenses from last year and the first half of this year broke us so badly that we're still way behind on everything. I have GOT to put a big chunk on our tax bill, which is weighing heavily on me constantly. [You wonder why I don't sleep? Like most of the last week? And last night, again? Apart from pain, that's one BIG reason.] 

Over last weekend, I finally got 7 new offerings [8 pieces total, 2 sold as a pair] up yesterday: Art Deco Labradorite cuff here; Art Deco purpurite cuff here [and already spoken for]; triangle wire youth bangle here; Art Nouveau vine pattern-wire youth bangle here; small Art Nouveau pattern-wire bangle pair here; malachite earrings here; and Picasso jasper earrings here [very haunted Gothic stones! now sold!]. He's finally getting a chance to get caught up a bit on stuff that he's had to back-burner since last year, and I got three more new Deco-infused pieces up last night, big solid silver classic cuff here, new wristband in shades of moon and night here, and new vintage-style naja earrings here. There's another pair of larger earrings with stones in the works, plus four Warrior Woman pins; yesterday he finished the second pair of silver-and-stone ones and Sunday, we got seven new pairs of the gemstone-bead earrings done and photographed, and all eight pairs are up at the very beginning of the Earrings Gallery as of Monday night. The new cuff is also up, and it's today's feature, here. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales at a rate of at least two per week for the rest of the year for us to catch up [and that's just breaking even]. So: GO BUY! PLEASE! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Amazon cards are probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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